Today we are pleased to announce a new version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) with brand new features and mitigations. Users can click here to download the tool free of charge.

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit enables and implements different techniques to make successful attacks on your system more difficult. EMET is designed to mitigate exploitation attempts (even of 0-days) by making “current” exploitation techniques harder and less reliable. Users interested in finding out more about EMET can read more here.

EMET has a proven track record of stopping real-life attacks, as we have detailed in our previous blog-posts here , here and here.

This release marks a big milestone for EMET since this is the first version that is available as an officially-supported product. Support will be form based, with the on-line form available here.

Are there any programs known to not work with EMET? I've basically got almost every program forced to use it.

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I generally only add programs that have had internet facing exploits in the past such as browsers, pdf readers, media players and chat clients. I personally don't think adding everything is a good idea.

I had an interesting conversation with someone about the potential dangers of EMET and how it essentially works like a rootkit. They were arguing that it increases the attack surface of your system because it could be targeted by an attack and used to essentially distribute .dll injections.

At least, I think that's what they were saying. They know more than I do. I think we both agreed in the end that the benefits outweighed this potential.